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Understanding BI Tools in Today’s Market

Smarten

It includes predictive and prescriptive analytics and is used to gain insight into data and plan for the future using sophisticated features like key influencer analytics, sentiment analysis, embedded business intelligence, assisted predictive modeling, anomaly alerts, natural language processing (NLP) for simple search analytics and other features.

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Three Types of Actionable Business Analytics Not Called Predictive or Prescriptive

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Decades (at least) of business analytics writings have focused on the power, perspicacity, value, and validity in deploying predictive and prescriptive analytics for business forecasting and optimization, respectively. How do predictive and prescriptive analytics fit into this statistical framework?

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Return on Investment Now we bring it all together to calculate the ROI on embedded analytics. Costs: The investment in developing and maintaining the solution. “-1”: The formula assures that a positive ROI is achieved only when benefits exceed the costs. Benefits: The combination of strategic benefits (e.g., cost reduction).